Excerpt Spotlight: Bear Naked by Katie Kenyhercz from the Hot on Ice: A Hockey Romance Anthology

Monday, February 20, 2017

Today I have an excerpt to share from Bear Naked by Katie Kenyhercz, which is part of the Hot on Ice Hockey Romance Anthology. Please check it out below plus all the details for the anthology, including pre-order links. So may wonderful authors are participating bringing you 18 amazing stories.

Hot On Ice: A Hockey Romance Anthology

Release Date: March 21, 2017

The New Orleans Cajun Rage professional hockey team just won the Cup. No one thought they’d do it. They were a team of shoulda beens, never coulda beens and a star or two. They’d only been in the Crescent City for three years before this year’s Cinderella run that had them skating off the ice with the championship.

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20% of all royalties earned from the sale of Hot on Ice will go to Homes for Troops, a nonprofit organization that builds mortgage-free, specially modified homes for severely injured veterans.

Bear Naked by Katie Kenyhercz

First Nations defenseman Bear Thompson wants to spend his day with the Cup back home on the reserve, but first he has to convince his childhood sweetheart and current band chief Aria Paul to give him another chance and that letting the media in won’t be the end of the world. The last thing Aria wants to do is fall back in love with the man who broke her heart and left her in the dust, but old feelings spark new ones, and when Bear sets his sights on a goal, it’s only a matter of time.

Bear Naked by Katie Kenyhercz

Hating him would make this easier. If he were still the immature ass who’d broken up with her in a voice mail, it wouldn’t be a problem. But the man sitting across from her now looked truly torn up, and damn it, she was starting to feel bad for him. “I was young and stupid, too.” Embarrassingly stupid. It was impossible to think she’d actually believed they’d stay together once he left. That eighteen year-old Bear would be happy with a girlfriend who lived on a tiny reserve in Nova Scotia and would turn down the throngs of women who threw themselves at him on a daily basis.

“You weren’t stupid. You were sweet. And supportive. You were perfect. I just didn’t have the perspective to know it then.”

Her stomach dropped the way it did in the first seconds of free fall when they’d jumped off the tall rocks into the reserve’s lake as kids. What was he saying? “And you have that perspective now?”

A smile cracked his serious expression and revealed perfectly white teeth, even if they weren’t all originally his. A short release of breath served as a laugh. “Um, yeah. I don’t know if you know this, but you’re pretty much one of a kind. It’s a snake pit out there. I met a few decent people, but no matter what they were like, there was always one inescapable flaw.”

“They committed the cardinal sin of trying to eat food off your plate?”